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Before heading to the UDS-Q me and my girlfriend went to Paris for a long weekend (since in 1yr that I live in France I had never visited it properly). We spent 4 fantastic days there, heading in and out from the Parisien metro and walking our way throught out the city, even in not so tourist places.

As usual, coming back home, I had like 5 GByte of pictures in my camera, and due to the few days before leaving for the USA, I hadn’t had the time to process them. Come back from the UDS, and here there is the Paris photostream.

One picture was still missing though, since it required a little bit of work, and yesterday night I eventually managed to “compose” it. Compose because it is a “small” panorama, made of 7 pictures, taken while sitting on the Seine banks close to Notre Dame. The view goes from Notre Dame on the left to the Hotel de Ville on the right, plus other buildings looking at the river. The original TIFF format of the panorama wheighs in at 2.6 GB of disk space, measuring 46366*14910 pixels, it takes like 5 minutes on my machine to open with Gimp, and it took me something like 4 hours of work: loading the 7 TIFF images with Hugin, processing it for the first time, manually adding as much matching-points as possible, waiting for the final result, and finally opening it up with Gimp to play with it in different ways (next time I will use imagemagick).

I’m happy with the outcome, it’s the hugest panorama I have ever created. I think me and my girlfriend will print it out (not in the original size, ’cause it will be close to 7 meters!) and hang it somewhere around the house.